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WILLIAMSVILLE—Niagara County Legislature Economic Development Committee Chairwoman Kathryn Lance, R-Wheatfield, delivered the following remarks Thursday night at a New York State Public Service Commission hearing at the Amherst Municipal Building, where the PSC was taking public comment regarding a proposal by National Grid to lower customers' bills. Lance was joined by economic development officials from throughout Western New York:
"Good evening. My name is Kathryn Lance, and I am speaking on behalf of the Niagara County Legislature, as Chairperson of that Legislative body's Economic Development Committee.
"I am here to express Niagara County's support of National Grid's rate filing proposal, which only affects electricity customers in Niagara County. It is our understanding that if National Grid's proposal is approved, the total electric bills for its customers will decrease by 1.7 percent. We understand that the rate filing calls for an increase in annual electricity delivery rates, but with a $190 million dollar surcharge set to expire, customers will be seeing a reduction in their electric bills.
"Niagara County supports National Grid's proposal, which benefits the residents of Niagara County.
"It is also our understanding that National Grid is proposing to increase the funds they make available in their economic development programs from $9 million, to $11 million dollars. National Grid's economic development programs have had a profoundly positive impact on Niagara County's economy over the past decade. For example, National Grid awarded Greenpac Mill, LLC of Niagara Falls, a $500,000 grant to help fund the construction of an electric substation at their new paper mill. Greenpac Mill is investing $407 million in the construction of this new facility, and will be creating 110 new family-supporting jobs over the next three years. This 250,000 square foot facility is scheduled to go on line in July of this year, and will help us retain many of our young people who are looking for an opportunity to stay home, and raise their families here in Niagara County.
"Another example is National Grid's awarding of a $190,000 grant to the Lumber City Development Corporation of North Tonawanda, for electric infrastructure work at the Buffalo Bolt Business Park. Buffalo Bolt will soon be the home to an expanded Taylor Devices of North Tonawanda, as well as other manufacturing facilities that will be creating new family-supporting jobs in our community.
"Niagara County received a $300,000 grant from National Grid for the development of a New York State Certified Shovel Ready Site, which is now known as the Cambria Tech Park in the Town of Cambria. Because of this grant, this site will jump right to the short list of site selectors who are looking to site high tech projects in New York State.
"These are just a few of the Niagara County projects National Grid supported through their grant programs over the past several years. In all, National Grid has awarded over $3.1 million dollars in grants to various projects in Niagara County, including a $250,000 grant for an electric substation at Metaullics in the Town of Wheatfield to support their expansion project; $50,000 to Niagara Falls Memorial Medical Center to support their new state-of-the-art Emergency Room, $25,000 for the historic Riviera Theatre in North Tonawanda to upgrade their electrical system, and much more.
"I think it is clear; National Grid is investing in economic development in Niagara County and throughout our Western New York region. National Grid will continue to invest in its infrastructure, which is critical not only for its residential customers, but also its industrial customers here in Niagara County that rely on good reliable delivery of electric power to their facilities.
"In conclusion, once again, on behalf of Niagara County Legislature Chairman William Ross, and my colleagues on the Niagara County Legislature, Niagara County is in full support of National Grid's April 27, 2012 rate filing proposal.
"Thank you for the opportunity to speak this evening."
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Mayflower II sailing to Fairhaven for winter repairs
Ship is reproduction of boat that crossed Atlantic in 1620
Mayflower II and her crew left Wednesday morning for the Fairhaven Shipyard in Fairhaven, where the ship will undergo maintenance, Wicked Local reported.
The ship was expected to arrive at the Fairhaven Shipyard at approximately 4 p.m. The ship was being towed by the tugboat Jaguar.
Mayflower II will be hauled out of the water next week for winter repairs and Coast Guard inspection. Work will include building and installing a new rudder, hull plank caulking and plank fastenings. The bottom of the ship will be cleaned and painted. After inspection, additional work may be required.
Mayflower II will spend much of the winter in Fairhaven, returning to Plymouth in time for Plimoth Plantation's opening in March.
Mayflower II, one of Plimoth Plantation's living history exhibits, is a full-scale reproduction of the ship that crossed the Atlantic in 1620.
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Jess Reinhardt will compete in the 100 fly on Friday at the NCAA Division I Women's Swimming & Diving Championships in Indianapolis, Ind.
Psych Sheet Liberty freshman Jess Reinhardt will compete in the 100 fly at the 2013 NCAA Division I Women's Swimming & Diving Championships, held at IU Natatorium in Indianapolis, Ind., from Thursday through Saturday. Live results and live video streaming will be available throughout the championships. The finals sessions on Friday and Saturday nights will appear live on ESPN3, with the championship round appearing on ESPNU on a taped-delay basis, next Wednesday, March 27, at 8 p.m. Reinhardt qualified for the NCAA Championships with a conference-record, NCAA B cut and U.S. Open cut time of 52.87 at the Ohio State Last Chance Meet on March 3. Her time is ranked No. 35 among those entered in the event at the national championship meet. She was named CCSA Women's Freshman of the Meet after winning both the 100 and 200 fly at the 2013 CCSA Swimming & Diving Championships. The Gatton, Queensland, Australia, native, will be Liberty's second-ever representative at the NCAA Women's Swimming & Diving Championships. Last season, Brye Ravettine competed in the 50 free, 100 free and 100 back at the NCAA national meet, becoming Liberty's first swimming All-American by placing 13th in the 50 free. The NCAA Championship will feature the same program that Liberty swam at the CCSA Championships in February, when the Lady Flames earned second place. The top 16 times from each event in morning prelims qualify for evening finals, with the top eight swimming in the A Final. Those who complete races in the A Final earn All-America first team status, while B finalists are named honorable mention All-Americans. Reinhardt will compete in the 100 fly on Friday morning, aiming to advance to finals. Last season, it took a time of 52.54 to make the B Final, and 52.31 to qualify for the A Final. If Friday's prelims go according to the psych sheet, it will take 52.13 to earn an evening swim, and 51.78 to make the A Final. Kendyl Stewart of USC (51.32) and Kelsi Worrell of Louisville (51.55), both freshmen, hold the top two seed times, while Yale's Alexandra Forrester of Yale has the top time by a returner from last year's field, seeded third at 51.57. Rachel Bootsma of California, a 2012 Olympic Gold medalist as a relay alternate, is tied with Virginia Tech's Heather Savage for the seventh fastest seed, 51.78. Liberty, ranked No. 37 in the latest Endless Pools/CollegeSwimming.com Top 25, had eight NCAA B cuts by individuals this season, and one NCAA B cut in a relay.
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So there has been a request for some of the photography that I have been doing, and I thought that was a great idea :)! Here are some pictures for you :)!
Here is my youngest child and she is now 5 (going to school in the fall), she decided that she wanted me to take some pictures of her which is rare but when she does she is amazing :)!
What an amazing sunset this was, I went up the road from me to take this picture am glad I did go check it out :).
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Review of the first week of the fifth quarter!
As I've mentioned before (and have many other second-year students), it's so hard to believe the end is so near!
This quarter is already crazy - a lot of the classes are offered only at night, or at other weird times of the day/week.
For example, my classes run 1:30PM - 9:48PM two days a week, along with a project class with local businesses, that must be fit in during the rest of the week.
The really good thing about this quarter is that the majority of classes are ones that I'm excited about taking. Dr. Rucci's strategy implementation class has been really enjoyable thus far, aided by the fact that he is a truly amazing professor. The global sourcing class will really come in handy in many different future careers, and my project group includes two very stellar students. And who can forget Intopia, the business simulation course run by Dr. Dial. Our first two decisions were due by this morning, so our team was at lovely Gerlach Hall for untold hours last night... and into the morning. There are so many variables, but of course, not nearly as many in real life! The last course I'm taking the Lean Six Sigma project class, which partners students with local businesses to aid them in solving real, quantifiable problems.
This quarter also will bring many different events outside of the classroom. The first EOTW event was held Tuesday at the Rusty Bucket, where many students came to watch the Buckeyes play in the Sugar Bowl. Several famous groups are also coming to town soon, including Cirque Du Soleil. I recommend all OSU students check out D-Tix - which lists different events that students can get discounts to.
I hope everyone's quarter has started well!
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The arrival station of the new funicular Pejo 3000, located at the altitude of 3000 meters, which is the highest in Trentino.
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Thursday Reads: Demographics, Anti-Science Republicans, and Biblical Views of RapePosted: November 8, 2012 Filed under: 2012 elections, 2012 presidential campaign, 2012 primaries, abortion rights, Barack Obama, Mitt Romney, morning reads, U.S. Politics, War on Women, Women's Healthcare, Women's Rights | Tags: Dick Morris, gender gap, Latino voters, Marco Rubio, Mitch McConnell, Nate Silver, Paul Ryan, Richard Mourdock, Rick Berg, Rick Santorum, Todd Akin 97 Comments
Good Morning!!
The meme of the day yesterday was that Latino voters reelected President Obama. As usual, the role of women in the election is getting short shrift. In fact, the gender gap this year was even bigger than in 2008. At HuffPo, Laura Bassett writes:
According to CNN's exit polls, 55 percent of women voted for Obama, while only 44 percent voted for Mitt Romney. Men preferred Romney by a margin of 52 to 45 percent, and women made up about 54 percent of the electorate. In total, the gender gap on Tuesday added up to 18 percent — a significantly wider margin than the 12-point gender gap in the 2008 election.
Women's strong support in the swing states gave Obama a significant advantage over Romney, despite his losses among men and independents. While Obama lost by 10 percentage points among independents in Ohio, he won by 12 points among women in the state. In New Hampshire, women voted for Obama over Romney by a margin of 58 to 42 percent, while men preferred Romney by a narrow 4-point gap. Pennsylvania showed a 16-point gender gap that tipped the scale toward Obama.
Yes, Latinos voted for Obama by a wide margin, but guess what? There was a gender gap there too.
Overall Obama won three out of every four votes (75%) cast by Hispanic women and 63% of Hispanic men, a 12-point gender gap. Four years ago the gap was only four points as Obama won 64% of men and 68% of Latino women. Romney won 35% of Latino men and 24% of women.
Here's another interesting demographic factoid: there isn't much of a gender gap when it comes to voters wanting to keep abortion legal, and that holds true with Latinos as well as voters overall.
Exit poll results found that about two-thirds of Hispanics (66%) said that abortion should be legal while 28% disagreed. Among all voters, a somewhat smaller majority (59%) would allow legal abortions while 37% were opposed.
There is no gender gap on views on abortion among Hispanics or among all voters, according to national exit polling. About two-thirds of men (64%) and Latino women (67%) would permit legal abortion, as would 58% of all male voters nationally and 60% of women.
As Dakinikat noted yesterday, Republicans are busy trying to figure out how to attract Latino voters, who represent about 10% of the U.S. population. But they refuse to recognize the power of women voters, and they apparently haven't noticed that overall, the majority of both men and women disapprove of Republicans using the government to control women's bodies.
If the anti-science-and-math Republicans hadn't disdained Nate Silver's predictions, they could have been forewarned. On October 21, Silver wrote about the "historically" huge gender gap in 2012.
If only women voted, President Obama would be on track for a landslide re-election, equaling or exceeding his margin of victory over John McCain in 2008. Mr. Obama would be an overwhelming favorite in Ohio, Florida, Virginia and most every other place that is conventionally considered a swing state. The only question would be whether he could forge ahead into traditionally red states, like Georgia, Montana and Arizona.
If only men voted, Mr. Obama would be biding his time until a crushing defeat at the hands of Mitt Romney, who might win by a similar margin to the one Ronald Reagan realized over Jimmy Carter in 1980. Only California, Illinois, Hawaii and a few states in the Northeast could be considered safely Democratic. Every other state would lean red, or would at least be a toss-up.
IMHO, it would behoove both Democrats and Republicans to keep in mind that women are more than half of the electorate, and we are sick and tired of being pushed around.
In other news,
it came out yesterday that Mitch McConnell offered Marco Rubio the opportunity to run the NRSC for the midterm elections in 2014, but Rubio turned the job down. From Real Clear Politics:
Florida Sen. Marco Rubio has been courted by Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell to take over the National Republican Senatorial Committee for the 2014 midterm season, but the freshman lawmaker declined the entreaty, sources told RCP.
It might seem early to think about the next campaign cycle, but Senate leadership elections will take place in short order. And given the GOP's losses in Senate races Tuesday night, the party is looking to make some changes.
McConnell probably hoped that Rubio could help the party with it's diversity issues.
Rubio, a rapidly rising star in the party after his huge but unlikely victory in the 2010 election, is a favorite of McConnell's. And as a 41-year-old Cuban-American capable of delivering some of the party's best speeches, he's someone the GOP brass likes to put in front of the cameras. Not only is he inspirational, but he helps the diversity-challenged party bridge several divides with voters.
What's more, Rubio is a star fundraiser who was able to pull in hundreds of thousands of dollars for Mitt Romney's failed presidential bid, a skill that would be a boon to the Senate campaign committee. Of course, he can still be used by the NRSC to raise money, but he wouldn't have to deal with the party's divisive primaries as one of its leading strategists.
Much to McConnell's chagrin — and for the second time in several months — Rubio's career will not go in the direction that the Kentucky senator had been hoping for: When Romney was poring over running-mate prospects, McConnell was pining for Rubio, and he made his preference well known.
I just had to share this:
Dick Morris' attempt to explain why he was so wrong in his prediction that Romney would win the election in a landslide, taking 325 electoral votes.
I've got egg on my face. I predicted a Romney landslide and, instead, we ended up with an Obama squeaker.
According to Morris, if Romney had won with 325 electoral votes it would have been a landslide. If Obama wins Florida, he'll get 335 electoral votes, and it won't be a landslide–it'll be a "squeaker."
The key reason for my bum prediction is that I mistakenly believed that the 2008 surge in black, Latino, and young voter turnout would recede in 2012 to "normal" levels. Didn't happen. These high levels of minority and young voter participation are here to stay. And, with them, a permanent reshaping of our nation's politics.
In 2012, 13% of the vote was cast by blacks. In 04, it was 11%. This year, 10% was Latino. In '04 it was 8%. This time, 19% was cast by voters under 30 years of age. In '04 it was 17%. Taken together, these results swelled the ranks of Obama's three-tiered base by five to six points, accounting fully for his victory.
Morris could have done what the Obama campaign did and looked at the latest census numbers, but right wingers don't believe in empirical evidence. But the real cause of Morris' failure to make the correct prediction was Sandy and Chris Christie.
But the more proximate cause of my error was that I did not take full account of the impact of hurricane Sandy and of Governor Chris Christie's bipartisan march through New Jersey arm in arm with President Obama. Not to mention Christe's fawning promotion of Obama's presidential leadership.
It made all the difference.
See? Morris' mistaken prediction had nothing to do with Morris' stupidity and the fact that he lives in the Fox News right wing bubble.
Harry Reid says he will take action to reform the filibuster rules.
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) pledged on Wednesday to change the rules of the Senate so that the minority party has fewer tools to obstruct legislative business….
"I want to work together, but I also want everyone to also understand, you cannot push us around. We want to work together," Reid said.
"I do" have plans to change the Senate rules, he added. "I have said so publicly and I continue to feel that way … I think the rules have been abused, and we are going to work to change them. We will not do away with the filibuster, but we will make the senate a more meaningful place. We are going to make it so we can get things done."
I sure do hope he means that.
Finally, a longer read.
I think we all agree that the Republican Party has been taken over by right wing religious nuts who claim to take the bible literally–even though they tend to pick and choose which parts of the Bible to pay attention to and which parts to ignore.
During the past couple of years, we watched Republicans in statehouses around the the country do their darnedest to take away women's access to abortion and even contraception.
Mitt Romney chose as his VP a man who tried to change the definition of rape and who believes that rape is just another method of conception.
A string of Republican officeholders and candidates unself-consciously revealed themselves to be utter troglodytes who had bizarre notions about rape and who were quite willing to force victims of rape and incest who were impregnated to bear their perpetrators' offspring.
If anyone thinks Republican crazies will change their minds just because women successfully voted down Todd Akin, Richard Mourdock and Rick Berg, I think they'd be sadly mistaken. I want to recommend an article I read at Alternet a few days ago: What the Bible Says About Rape. It's long, but a very important read. Here are the opening paragraphs:
Christians of many stripes are scrambling to distance themselves, their religion, or their God from Republican comments about rape . The latest furor is about Washington State congressional candidate John Koster, who opposes abortion even in cases of rape and incest and added for good measure that "incest is so rare, I mean it's so rare." Before that, it was Indiana candidate Richard Mourdock, who said, "I think even when life begins in that horrible situation of rape, that it is something that God intended to happen" backed up by Texas senator John Cornyn insisting that "life is a gift from God." These men share the January sentiment of Rick Santorum: "the right approach is to accept this horribly created — in the sense of rape — but nevertheless a gift in a very broken way, the gift of human life, and accept what God has given to you."
Those Christians who see the Bible as a human, historical document have the right to distance themselves. Those who see the Bible as the unique and perfect revelation of the Divine, essentially dictated by God to the writers, do not. The fact is, the perspective that God intends rape babies and that such pregnancies should be allowed to run their course is perfectly biblical.
I am not going to argue here that the Bible teaches that life begins at conception. It doesn't. The Bible writers had no concept of conception, and no Bible writer values the life of a fetus on par with the life of an infant or an older child. One does say that God knows us while we are developing in the womb, but another says he knows us even before . Levitical law prescribes a fine for a man who accidentally triggers a miscarriage . It is not the same as the penalty for manslaughter. Therapeutic abortion is never mentioned, nor is the status of the fetus that spontaneously aborts. Under Jewish law, a newborn isn't circumcised and blessed until he is eight days old, having clearly survived the high mortality peri-natal period. For centuries the Catholic Church believed that "ensoulment" occurred and a fetus became a person at the time of quickening or first movement, sometime during the second trimester.
However, if we take the viewpoint of biblical literalists and treat the Good Book as if it were authored by a single perfect, unchanging Deity, then a man is on solid ground thinking that rape babies are part of God's intentions.
As long as the Republican Party is controlled by "christians" who take the bible literally, women's rights to autonomy are threatened. No woman should vote for any Republican as long as this state of affairs continues.
Now what are you reading and blogging about today?
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"IMHO, it would behoove both Democrats and Republicans to keep in mind that women are more than half of the electorate, and we are sick and tired of being pushed around."
It seems to me that women got the president they preferred, the right to choose is the law of the land and not likely to change any time soon (and 2/3 of the country now prefer it that way) AND we have the first woman senator ever from MA. There are also now a record 20 women senators.
Add to this the fact that the two Republicans who made ignorant statements about abortion were not only roundly chastised by pretty much the entire country, but also went down to defeat in their elections.
It seems to me that women did pretty well this time around. Not that things could not be improved, but we should take some satisfaction in the progress, Remember it was less than 100 years ago that women were beaten in the streets for trying to vote. That still blows my mind.
Good Morning…..Great info BB. The polls proved exactly what we expected. I agree that the GOP/TP and the pundits are not paying enough attention to women voters. But we payed attention to it and we knew, despite the pre-election numbers from early fall, that women would go to the polls on election day and say HELL NO!!!! to those who want to take away our autonomy.
"IMHO, it would behoove both Democrats and Republicans to keep in mind that women are more than half of the electorate, and we are sick and tired of being pushed around."
Absolutely right!!!!
Also I noticed that in the polls that the 18-30 went overwhelmingly for Obama and that there was not the huge down-tick of voting in that age group that the pundits expected. I think the polling organizations need to look to Nate Silver to help them with their models, since he obviously knows more about the composition of voters and trends of voters than the people that run these polls. (R)assmussen was joke through most of the polling as was Gallup. They have some serious work to do.
I hope everyone got caught up on their sleep last night, I sure did and I feel better this morning.
Thanks again to SkyDancing for the great coverage you've all provided throughout the pre-election and election process and thanks to all commenters for being so informed and so much fun.
I meant to incude this in my comment:
"Exit polls on Tuesday indicated that voters from 18 to 29 years old comprised 19 percent of the national electorate, a modest 1-point uptick since 2008 but one that defies the pre-election conventional wisdom that Obama would be left at the altar by young voters."
People like Bill O'Reilly maintain that it was not so much the "women vote" that helped Obama but the "single women" vote that did it.
Meaning, of course, all those "sluts" who want nothing more than to have sex, sex, sex, without paying the consequences! You know those sirens who entice nice men like Bill to cheat on their partners and want you to pay for the privilege.
This is coming from the 4 time married playbook of Rush Limbaugh who depict single women having sex as whores.
I'll bet that when these apes feel like "getting lucky tonight" they are not asking how these ladies are paying for their contraceptives.
These guys who are stuck in the 50's need to be herded off a cliff.
Karl Rove will be forced to dance with the one who BRUNG HIM:
"Many of the lightning bolts were aimed at none other than Karl Rove, the former Bush administration political genius who oversaw the deployment of nearly $400 million in campaign spending through outside groups American Crossroads and Crossroads GPS toward the presidential race and toward numerous Senate and House races.
"The billionaire donors I hear are livid," one Republican operative told The Huffington Post. "There is some holy hell to pay. Karl Rove has a lot of explaining to do … I don't know how you tell your donors that we spent $390 million and got nothing."
Rove even suffered the indignity of being insulted on Twitter by the blustery Donald Trump, who had attended Romney's election night party here on Tuesday night, but left early after it was clear that Obama had won a second term.
"Congrats to @KarlRove on blowing $400 million this cycle. Every race @CrossroadsGPS ran ads in, the Republicans lost. What a waste of money," Trump tweeted, inaccurately.
Crossroads GPS spent money in the Nevada Senate race, where Republican incumbent Sen. Dean Heller defeated Democratic challenger Shelley Berkley. The group also spent money on numerous House races.
Rove was forced to defend his group's expenditures live on Fox News on Tuesday night, and will hold a briefing with top donors on Thursday, according to Politico."
Brghahahahahaha. breaks my heart, NOT!!!
Also out here in CA he lost big on Prop 32, the anti-union Prop running as anti-special interests. Massive air time. Some decent ads on the other side, explicitly naming Rove, but nowhere near the money spent. People saw through it anyway. This was a giant defeat.
Bb, this is a gret post – tied things up with a nice little bow
Jon Stewart nails it again.
I have my Rainbow Flag flying high this morning (which is a bit daring in my neighborhood) because it looks like we won all 3
Victory at hand in WA.
One comment about Dick Morris blaming Chris Christie.
If the Republicans had one once of integrity, compassion, sense of duty, patriotism or political acumen, they would have been falling all over themselves praising Chris Christie for falling all over himself praising the President.
Mitt Romney should have immediately called out anyone criticizing Christie. He should have said, " I applaud the Governor for standing with the President and I stand with them both. I stand ready to do anything the Governor or the President might ask on behalf of the citizens affected by Hurricane Sandy and I urge anyone who supports my campaign to do the same!"
But then again, if you don't feel that stuff you probably should say that stuff.
True that Ron. Romney missed opportunity after opportunity to behave like a man with some damned compassion and common sense. Romney now has the time to go on back to finding new and novel places to hide his money.
Sorry I haven't been here for the fun. I had to step away from everything for awhile. Honestly my anxiety level got so high Tuesday starting with my voting hell and stupid shit my husband said, (he really should be a republican, but he is not) every conversation we have he uses stupid straw man talking points. UGH
I haven't gone away, just needed to breathe normal again. So here is a link I loved. Also I wanted to say if Obama doesn't help the people that saved him, I am going to be really disappointed.
And there could not be a cuter little girl than Sasha Obama! 🙂


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I know that the OS does prevent too long kernel execution times on GPU's by canceling an execution with a timeout-failure. I also know that—on a desktop machine—one should get a second GPU if possible as then the first may still be used uninterrupted by the Window manager of the OS. However, I now do have a second GPU (second 8800GT in a Mac Pro) but this one still has it's kernelExecTimeout enabled.
How can I disable the kernel exec timeout under OS X and use my second 8800GT solely for computation purposes? Ideally, I would configure the same behaviour for both CUDA and OpenCL.


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The question was asked to Jim Harbaugh after the Seattle game. Of course it was. Because even though the 49ers had surrendered 73 points over six quarters of football, the story of this season revolves around Colin Kaepernick.
"For the record, is there any doubt that Colin is your starting quarterback?" Harbaugh was asked.
"Yes, I don't believe there's any question about that," Harbaugh said.
This is Kaepernick's job and no turning back. With the resounding loss in Seattle, the chance of a meaningless game against Arizona vanished, along with the opportunity to scrape the rust off Alex Smith, in case he might be needed in January.
Team Kaepernick rushed to his defense on social media, saying he wasn't the problem against the Seahawks. But he wasn't the solution either. He struggled getting the plays in. He converted only three third downs. He threw several dangerous balls, and Richard Sherman finally intercepted one. The only touchdown drive was irrelevant.
Part of the job of being the focal point of the team is handling the brutal losses as well as the glorious wins. Kaepernick's predecessor had lots of practice in the former and, last year, learned about the latter. Kaepernick is learning in the heat of a playoff push.
He's a work in progress. He comes to the postgame with little analysis. His entire contribution Sunday night amounted to 187 words, boiled down to: "We didn't play well enough to win."
Kaepernick is very smart and talented, but not very interested in being a spokesman. Perhaps that's because his two biggest role models – Harbaugh and Randy Moss – have a healthy disdain for media. Perhaps it's because at Nevada he received virtually no press coverage. Perhaps it's because he's a product of the social media generation.
But he stands in sharp contrast to the other young quarterbacks in the league. Russell Wilson, Robert Griffin III and Andrew Luck are all almost preternaturally mature and embrace their role in the mode of Peyton Manning and Tom Brady, quarterbacks who stand tall and articulate both the highs and lows of the game.
The playoffs are coming and with it the national spotlight. It will be just one more test for Kaepernick.
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A Worcester woman said yesterday she was kidnapped for ransom in Liberia, beaten and tortured over two to three days then escaped, only to be prevented by the government from leaving that West African country.
Christina Andrianopoulos, 58, said in an interview from her hotel in Monrovia that she is hopeful that a court will permit her to leave the country today. She said the U.S. Embassy in Liberia has booked a flight for her tonight that should put her in Boston by 2 p.m. tomorrow. The widow said she looks forward to seeing her 21-year-old son and 16-year-old daughter and boyfriend George Cancelmo.
Ms. Andrianopoulos hosts "City Vibes Metro" a show on Charter TV 3. As president of Omega Marketing Group, she had gone to Liberia on business.
She told a horrific tale of being held captive for almost three days before escaping on Sept. 26, but getting confirmation of her account was difficult yesterday, she said.
"The FBI worked with the Liberian National Police to conduct a kidnapping investigation regarding Christina Andrianopoulos, once she was reported kidnapped in Liberia," FBI spokesman Greg Comcowich said. "The Liberian national police were able to resolve the matter quickly and she is currently in close contact with our embassy personnel in Liberia. No further information about the matter will be provided by the FBI."
The State Department said it would not respond last night to questions about the kidnapping.
However, Samuel Nimley, commissioner for intelligence for the Liberian national police, said in a brief telephone interview that although the country's laws prohibit him from saying whether Ms. Andrianopoulos' account of events is accurate a Nigerian national was arrested last week and has been charged with kidnapping her and assault and battery.
He said other Nigerians are being sought. He also said a court ruling today would speak to Ms. Andrianopoulos' account of the incident.
For her part, Ms. Andrianopoulos said reports in Liberian newspapers that she had been arrested are false.
One such newspaper, The Inquirer in Monrovia, reported that Ms. Andrianopoulos was arrested at the airport in the company of U.S. embassy security personnel after the government refused an embassy request that she be allowed to leave the country. The country's acting justice minister said at a news conference, with the acting police director present, that he was informing the media about the arrest because people have a way of entering Liberia and acting to damage the image of the country. "I am not saying that this is what the lady intends to do," the official said.
Ms. Andrianopoulos said she went to the airport after her escape with the intention of talking to the Liberian police there before leaving for the United States and was prevented from leaving and taken back to national police headquarters for questioning.
She said the kidnapping began when she arrived in the country and was whisked away by a man who said he was the driver for a businessman she intended to meet in Liberia. She said the captors who held her in a darkened house said, "We don't rape women." She added, "But they beat 'em," and she suffered bruises to her face and an injury to an ear that damaged her hearing.
She was guarded by a man who said he was "The Rebel Boss, the DonDo," and two men who saluted him said "yes, sir" to him, she said. They forced her to call her family and demand a $5 million ransom, she said.
U.S. Rep. James P. McGovern, D-Worcester, spoke to Ms. Andrianopoulos and her family and the State Department, and understands that she will be able to return to the United States this week, said spokesman Scott Zoback.
U.S. Sen. Scott Brown, R-Mass., has been in touch with the FBI and is working with Ms. Andrianopoulos' fianc�, spokeswoman Marcie Kinzel said.


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PHOENIX -- The Dodgers completed the greatest comeback in franchise history Thursday when they clinched the National League West title with a 7-6 win over Arizona.
The come-from-behind victory -- sparked by a pair of Hanley Ramirez homers and a tiebreaking solo shot by A.J. Ellis -- ignited the kind of boisterous celebration that should be expected for a team that goes from last to first, but wasn't appreciated by the hosts.
When Kenley Jansen locked it down by getting Aaron Hill to fly out to Skip Schumaker, the players emptied from the dugout to the infield and gathered around second base to receive their division championship shirts and caps.
"This is a great milepost on the road to greater achievements," said club president and CEO Stan Kasten. "I'm proud of all of them, especially the front office, the manager and the coaches."
Eventually, the party moved into a clubhouse that was soon soaking in champagne and beer, although about a dozen Dodgers, including Matt Kemp and Clayton Kershaw, first decided on an impromptu pool party in the Chase Field pool beyond the right-center wall.
Add that to the bad feelings between the two clubs, which erupted June 11 in a Dodger Stadium brawl. Some Arizona officials and players were livid with the Dodgers, calling the celebration disrespectful.
"I would expect them to act with a little more class than they did. I doubt the New York Yankees would do something like that," D-backs infielder Willie Bloomquist said. ""They have a lot of veteran players on their team. I thought they had more class than that."
Kasten couldn't understand what the fuss was about.
"I've never seen a celebration where everyone isn't boisterous and enthusiastic," he said.
Through June 21, under a siege of injuries to key players, the last-place Dodgers were 31-42, 9 1/2 games out of first place and manager Don Mattingly's job was in jeopardy. Beginning with a 6-1 win in San Diego on June 22, the Dodgers unleashed a furious turnaround that one month later catapulted them into first place and they haven't looked back.
They are the fourth team to finish first after being in last after July 1. The 1914 Braves, '73 Mets and '95 Mariners are the others.
"Now we can say we're there," said Mattingly, who has been gunshy about postseason comments while the Dodgers lost 10 of the previous 14 games. "There were a lot of expectations with this club. We had a horrible start and a lot of injuries, but the players came together and got healthy and we just rolled."
From June 22 to August 23, the Dodgers went 46-10 (.821 winning percentage), extending their lead to 10 1/2 games as the rest of the division collapsed. Until this year, the largest deficit the Dodgers had overcome to finish first was 7 1/2 games in 2006.
"It's a baseball season, not a week or a month," general manager Ned Colletti said. "I always felt if we got healthy, it was just a matter of us keeping our focus until then."
This is the Dodgers' first division title since the Manny Ramirez-led 2009 edition, and if the season ended today the lead of 10 1/2 games would be the largest margin since they won by 13 ½ games in 1955. If the playoffs opened now, the Dodgers (88-65) would face St. Louis (89-64) in the first round, with the Cardinals having the home-field advantage. The Braves (90-62) own the NL's best record.
"I'm a guy who doesn't feel a lot of emotion, but this is a great accomplishment," Mattingly said. "We put together a great team with a big payroll and the expectations were huge and you see that where sometimes it all falls apart. We stuck together. My coaches were loyal to me, during the bad times when it was tough and they could have turned on me. They were sold. No backbiting. They kept it together."
Of course, reaching the postseason is merely the first step for the Dodgers. Since taking it all in 1988, they've qualified for the playoffs seven other times without reaching the World Series.
In their last two trips to the best-of-five NL Division Series, the Dodgers swept the Cubs in 2008 and the Cardinals in 2009, but were eliminated by the Phillies in the best-of-seven NL Championship Series in five games both seasons.
The Dodgers added Zack Greinke to a rotation headed by Kershaw with October in mind. In a best-of-five first series, they might need only three starters. The opponent will no doubt influence whether the third starter is Korean rookie lefty Hyun-Jin Ryu, righty Ricky Nolasco, or even late pickup Edinson Volquez, who seems to have strong staff support.
In those rugged first three months of 2013, the Dodgers lost starting pitchers Chad Billingsley and Josh Beckett to season-ending operations; Greinke for a month with a broken collarbone from one of two first-half brawls; starting shortstop Ramirez to thumb surgery and a pulled hamstring; another hamstring pull that sidelined Kemp for a month, the first of his four injuries; yet another hamstring pull that cost the comebacking Carl Crawford a month; all part of 20 disabling injuries suffered before that magic June 22 date.
But Ramirez finally healed and returned June 4, one day after the debut of Cuban sensation Yasiel Puig. Combined, they provided a pair of power bats to take some of the burden off workhorse Adrian Gonzalez. The added benefit of Puig's unbridled enthusiasm seemed to ignite, if not challenge, his teammates to raise their game.
Overcoming injuries has been a theme of this season and it could continue into October. Kemp's four injuries have taken a toll on his game physically, and mentally as well. The most recent of Crawford's nagging injuries is a stiff lower back. Andre Ethier is still walking in a boot to protect a sprained ankle. Ramirez has a bad back that can flare up with no warning.


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By this time you should have a pretty strong grasp of tapping basics and be proficient at tapping on one string. In lesson 15 of his Speed and Technique series, Allen starts working you up to tapping on multiple strings!
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Imagine, a 1/4 mile wide nearly solid mass of iron and some other material and a little bit space debree pulled behind (nothing though like a comet) passed within 160 thousand miles of Earth last week - in case you forgot, that is about HALF the distance from here to the moon.
This asteroid could have cause many different forms of Earth changing damage - hit the ocean, a tsunami might occur, hit the desert, sand and debree could clog the atmophere for years, hit a major city and say goodbye to that city.
a 1/4 mile asteroid isn't a Earth Killer (supposedly) but it surely would catch our attention. But the scary thing from NASA is that we have nearly 22 thousand similar misses (this one was the closest to miss the planet) every year.
We really don't have an early warning system or contingency plan to handle these deadly objects from space - maybe it is a blessing especially if it is a planet killer. But you can't really sit and worry about such things, but many NASA scientists claim that Jupiter and Neptune and Saturn are GREAT planets to have as near space neighbors - their magnetic drawn (actually gravational pull from their mass) help to pull these objects away from Earth. Of course, there is always the chance that the EXACT OPPOSITE can happen and they can pull an object into our path which would have missed us otherwise.
Yes... we are going back to the moon while the Soviets continue to move material up into space for the continued construction of the International Space Station ISS. We will rocket lots of stuff up there, but the Shuttle program is quickly going away and we are returning to the moon, with some word that it may be a refueling launch pad for deeper space flights in the future.
I'm excited that we are finding liquid water out there around these moons - I hope (since of radiation issues) we improve the probes that travel to their orbits and eventually land, capture and return debree from these moons.
Keeping human safe is NUMBER ONE always, but technology must march on - and better billions into space than into weapons. We hear of the 2300 Americans dead and thousands of Americans wounded, what about the hundreds of thousands of Iraqies dead and wounded who have gotten caught up in this war - don't think for a second poor people can't accidentally find their homes in the middle of a battle field, it happens in every war, it happened here many years ago in Revolutionary and Civil war.
Call me a hippy (or whatever you are today) but I'd rather see space exploration then war any day.
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Call me a hippy (or whatever you are today) but I'd rather see space exploration then war any day.
Amen to that brother, Amen. Let's all just get along! There's still plenty of room on
planet for everyone if we could all just learn how to get along!! :D
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I stumbled across this site one day, and was fascinated to encounter at least a few individuals who think outside the box.
There are actually concerted professional and amateur efforts to track stray asteroids and whatnot. Curiously, amateurs have been creating a great deal of notoriety over the past decade. There are now websites that list and track errant asteroids and whatnot. The big excitement lately has been a football stadium sized asteroid that will make a near pass in the 2020's and then possibly impact in the early 2030's. Some studies have been so detailed as to identify where the impact will occur (ref., in the Pacfic Ocean between Hawaii and southern California); however this was upsetting to many and more recent reports give the asteroid a low chance of impact. U.S.Congress has looked into this, and not figured-out what to do, and has postponed further considerations. The near pass-by in the mid-2020's should stimulate interest.
The irony is that there are over 1,000 asteroid in near collision solar orbitals, and this disqualifies Earth as being a planet, according to the criteria applied to disqualifying Pluto. I did some research, and according to the criteria that disqualified Pluto, our solar system now actually only has two legitimate planets. The rest, including Earth, are disqualified.
I find the asteroid belt to be very fascinating. It is still not entirely certain whether this is a debris field or a planetary beltway where planets either did not entirely form or were torn apart by Jupiter? It is a wide-enough zone for at least two planets. At this point it is a cosmic pool table. Collisions cause somethings to be shattered and others to be knocked out of stable orbits and then to be absorbed or sling-shotted asunder by Jupiter. Current astronomical thinking is that the asteroid belt will be entirely cleaned-out and emptied, except for possibly dust rings, within a million years. This suggests that the current asteriod belt as we know it today is probably not that old, which makes one wonder what it was like 500 millions years ago, or a billion years ago or 3 billions years ago.
Regardless of whether one believes in an extraterrestrial space alien deity, or whatever religion, or other spiritual divinity, there are some interesting aspects about the spiritual nature of biological life (including evolution) and humanity, including such phenomena as afterlife, ghosts and manifest destiny. Because of underground facilities, humans could, no doubt, survive a sizeable asteroid impact and even a moderately prolonged global winter. Humanity will definitely become quite durable with the development of a permanent lunar colony, which will no doubt occur within two decades or less. Extensive colonization of Luna and Mars are inevitable. Martian colonization probably will not begin occurring until after mid-century. Luna and Martian colonies will be domed colonies initially with considerable underground development. The problem with Lunar colonies will be the intense sunlight and harmful solar radiation frequencies. With designer greenhouse atmospheres, surface domed areas on Mars can be subtropical or even tropical, although Mars will feel like a late afternoon paradise with only half to less of the midday overhead sunlight intensity as Earth. Lunar colonies will be essentially solar-powered with a major emphasis on biofuels, which means Luna agriculture, which means multilayered dome systems that can chemically and electrically filter or reflect the biologically harmful solar radiation frequencies. Martian colonies will be similar; however my colony designs require a surround of nuclear power plants. Plant life will grow more slowly on Mars. In both realms of colonial adventure, beekeepers and worm ranchers will be essential.
The wildcard in extraterrestrial colonization is water. Luna either has a lot of water or the ingredients to make water, and also has potentials for nuclear reactor technology. Only recently is science becoming certain about the origins of Luna and making this knowledge publicly known. About 4.2/4.3 billions years ago, primordial Earth and a smaller planet, posthumously named Thaea, collided. The collision was somewhat oblique and knocked off a lot of the now Pacific basin area, which produced a vast dust cloud around Earth that ultimately consolidated into Luna, our moon. Once Luna formed, it appeared some 14 times larger than today, because it was much closer. It has been progressively drifting away and may at some point become independent. Primordial Earth and Thaea had essentially consolidated into planets at the time of the collision, and as a result, Luna has little or no nickel-iron inner core. Luna was essentially formed of rocky materials outside the inner cores of the two planets. The collision apparently caused Earth and Thaea to become re-molten and fuse together into modern Earth. Where Thaea came from is an enigma, or possibly primordial Earth and Thaea were the last two planetoidal accretions of the Earth orbital zone?
The other planetary moons were captured by the planets. Most or all are from the Kupier Belt; however one or more might have come from the asteroid belt region? Some astronomers wonder whether Mercury is truly a planet or perhaps a wandering moon that Venus had captured for a while and then lost?
The major nearby source for water is Ceres, which is one of the largest or the largest of the planetoids in the asteroid belt. It is surrounded in thick ice and is believed to harbor more freshwater than currently exists on Earth. I predict an ice mining operation off Ceres in the 22nd Century.
The adventures that lie ahead are awesome and totally exciting. It makes one want to live forever just to find out what happens.
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The Syrian war's death toll may be as high as 100,000 now, but as the violence mounts, the options for escaping it are shrinking. Countries like Turkey and Iraq have long limited the number of Syrian refugees who can cross their borders, and now there are increasingly clear signs that Jordan, which hosts more than half a million refugees, is doing the same.
Since May 17, there has been a precipitous decline in the number of refugees entering the kingdom. Jordanian officials insist that this is not a result of a government policy, but an uptick in fighting on the Syrian side of the border, which prevents refugees from reaching Jordan safely.
"We have not changed our way of handling the matter," says Jordanian Prime Minister Abdullah Ensour. "There are lulls, sometimes, not many people come. ... It also depends on who has the upper hand on the other side. If the government forces have the upper hand, then we expect less [to cross]."
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Many of the recently arrived refugees say they were turned back at the border and told to try another day, often multiple times. One 27-year-old refugee in Zaatari camp describes how his two sisters, who had spent two days waiting in the border town of Tal Shehab with their children, were turned back by Jordanian riot police when they finally reached the crossing point in late May.
"There were a lot of people at the border, and they had let a lot of people through, and they were not going to let more people through. And my sister begged him, saying 'I have five small children with me, please let us through'," he says. "The riot police told one of my sisters she could come into this bedroom with him, and he would let them in quickly." His sisters refused, and left the border. They next day they were allowed to enter through the same crossing without problems, he says.
Stories of abuses at the border have long circulated among refugees, as have those of extortion by both the Jordanian army and Syrian rebels, but now they are increasing. A researcher from Human Rights Watch, which is preparing a report on the issue, says the testimonies indicate that some kind of limit has been put on the number of entries.
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This weekend — October 3 and 4, 2009 — there will be a "Singularity Summit" in New York City, the latest in a series dating back to 2006. Ari Schulman will be in the room, liveblogging the event, and we expect to have regular coverage and commentary throughout. (Five years ago, when blogging was still fresh and liveblogging conferences was still pretty rare, we liveblogged a Foresight Institute conference at which a handful of the same speakers appeared.)
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